Ideas and resources to help teach primary school computing.

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Great coding in the Hollydale Pi club this week. We had the RGB LED from Monk Makes working and this initiated a fascinting talk about the difference between electronic colour mixing and paint colour mixing. Two of the children managed to network there Pis to join there minecraft worlds and started to code some python … More Hollydale Pi Club Servo’s and RGB LED

Year One were in introduced to my purple friend Daisy the Dinosaur today. Lots of fun was had by all coding Daisy to move across the screen. Then squeals of delight when the children discovered they could make Daisy grow so large and shrink so small they couldn’t see her any more! The children picked … More Beatrix Potter and Daisy the Dino

The Pi club at Hollydale Primary School is going from strength to strength. The children are all confident setting up the Pis and have started exploring the possibilities offered by the GPIO pins. We started simply using one of the projects in Carrie Anne Philbin’s wonderful book Adventures in Rapsberry Pi. We plugged an LED into the … More Hollydale Primary School Pi club

I wanted to move the year 1 at Beatrix Potter School on from exploring the BeeBots and start recording simple instructions in a psuedo program. They had allready explored the robots last week and this week I demonstrated how to record using simple arrows what the children wanted the Bots to achieve. We talked about … More Year 1 Programming Beebots

Well done to both Year 2 classes for their brilliant work on Scratch Junior you really had your sprites jumping around the screen. Wonderful code blocks to create programs and fantastic debugging to get them to work!